Well, if everything you've read says the date is on the bottom of the reverse, then everything you've read is wrong. The date is outlined in red...
A neat group of coins, the kind I like to find in a junk box. The two Chinese cash are: 1. (upside down) Dao Guang (1821-1850) mint of Dongchuan...
I won these two coins as part of a group lot in a recent Stephen Album auction: [ATTACH] Coin 1: Ilkhans, Amul mint. AR dirham. Type A (Arabic...
The Parthians conquered a large portion of former Seleucid lands, and at least one of the cities named by Seleucus I, Laodicea in Media, issued...
[ATTACH] Roman Empire, Rome mint. AE sestertius (20.1 g, 27 mm). Septimius Severus (193- 211), struck 196. Obverse: Laureate and cuirassed...
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